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Ten Historical Myths Everyone Believes Because of Hollywood

Movies are for entertainment, not education, but unfortunately, too many audience members believe that the historical movies they’re watching are actually factually correct.  Big, big mistake. Call it artistic license, playing fast and loose with the ...

The 8 Most Expensive Historical Items To Have Sold At Auction

As you’ve probably realized many moons ago, the rich aren’t like us.  It’s probably safe to bet that they’ve never had to rummage through their car seats for lunch money.  And if their kids start to ...

Six Crazy Ancient Games

Let’s face it, if a lot of those people who lived way back when – the Vikings, the Romans, the Mongols, for instance — were to somehow time machine their way to modern times, we’d all ...

The Case of Brian Douglas Wells and America’s Most Bizarre Bank Robbery

On 28th August 2003 one of the most bizarre crimes ever seen in America unfolded in Erie, Pennsylvania. Events start when 46-year-old pizza deliveryman Brian Douglas Wells calmly walks into a PNC Bank in the town ...

5 Small Countries With Crazy Histories

Over the centuries, these five small countries have had more than their fair share of problems, and most of them are still as unstable as your lingerie-wearing uncle with a Napoleon complex.  It’s almost as if ...

Ghosts Of World War II Invade Modern Photographs

The following pictures were published in the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta in November 2010. They are the impressive work of Russian pilot Sergey Larenkov. Sergey calls the photo collection “The Ghosts of World War II’s Past”. Originally things started ...

Pictures You’ll Remember From Your Childhood

Okay, maybe not everyone, but if you grew-up in the UK during the 1980′s, then you’ll almost certainly recognise some of these. What can you name from the images below, and more importantly, what has been ...

The Seven Most Un-Pope-Like Popes

Believe it or not, the controversies surrounding the Catholic Church today – bad as some of them may be – pale in comparison to the absolute atrocities committed by these Popes Gone Wild of the past.  ...

10 Historical ‘Facts’ That Are Actually Barefaced Lies

If you believe that history and George Washington cannot tell a lie, then you’ll probably be surprised to learn that a number of the “facts” you were taught in school were as phony as the teeth ...

MV Joyita: The Mary Celeste Of The South Pacific

On October 3rd 1955, the MV Joyita left the port of Samoa heading for the Tokelau Islands. But something terrible was about to happen during the journey and the ship was to never reach its final ...